Kazakhstan's number one television presenter, Borat (Baron Cohen), is on a
mission to travel to America in an attempt to discover what aspects of their
lifestyle it is that makes their country so great and, hopefully, bring them
back to Kazakhstan.

He takes his producer, Azamat, along for company and to keep an eye on the
budget. Things are going great in New York until Borat discovers Baywatch and
Pamela Anderson. He decrees there and then to travel to California to make her
his wife.

He convinces Azamat that is where they will find real America and
make the long road trip in an ice-cream van, stopping to experience snippets of
Americana along the way.

Yeah. I'm a bit late jumping on this band wagon but since it's still
doing really well at the cinemas I thought I'd drop in my penneth worth.

Singularly the best 'laugh out loud' film I have seen this year. Not
necessarily the funniest in terms of wit and joke hit-rate but a film I could
not help but laugh at.

The best thing about Borat is that it is incredibly clever
and can be appreciated from many levels. There are the ignoramuses in the world
who can laugh at the silly 'Johnny Foreigner' making an arse of himself in
civilised society. There's a gross-out, Jackass element because you
know this is just a man setting himself up for some - at times, downright
dangerous - situations. Standing in the middle of a packed Texan stadium singing
'all other countries are run by little girls' to the tune of the American
national anthem could be considered suicidal.

But above all that is the irony that Baron Cohen is using a parody figure to
exploit others' intolerance and foolishness. In this case, it just happens to be
a selection of Americans.

He also goes out of his way to ridicule himself - a naked fight left me
disgusted, uncomfortable and desperate for breath from laughing so hard. For
this scene along is the entire film worth seeing.